RE: bleeding shocks?
I know you yourself have never deleted a post of mine but there are some on this site, take tweety, that if you prove him wrong will delete your posts (or worse, edit them to match his) and stick you on restrictions, just because you use a different method. The end.
But for bleeding shocks there are a few ways to do it, some people fill them to the brim and then screw on the cap gently (so that forces out the air), some folk use the pressure filling tool (this fills them under pressure so that no air can get in in the first place) and others fill and pump, let settle and then top up. The latter being my preferred method. But when my shocks are filled and the cap is on, I expect to be able to push the piston right in and have it slide back out 1/3rd of the way under the pressure created by the bladder and the differential area of the piston shaft itself.